At 11:28 PM Friday 10/5/2007, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > >> From Astronomy magazine's on-line newsletter (I couldn't find a link to it): >> >> >>Early morning display >> >>[Image] >>[] >> >>Plan to awaken early October 7 - a spectacular >>view awaits you in the eastern sky. Shortly after >>4:30 A.M., Venus, Saturn, the Moon and the bright >>star Regulus in Leo rise in the east, all within a 6° circle. >> >>Venus is bright, shining at magnitude -4.7. A >>telescope reveals a 38-percent-lit disk - an >>interesting contrast to the >>13-percent-illuminated crescent Moon. Try viewing >>Venus through a scope with your right eye, and >>the Moon with your unaided left eye. >> >>Venus lies less than 3° southwest of >>1st-magnitude Regulus, Leo's brightest star. >>Saturn lies 6° east of Venus, while the crescent >>Moon stands less than 2° west of Saturn. By dawn, >>around 6:30 A.M., the four objects have climbed >>high in the east. Be ready to answer questions from coworkers. > >OK, so that was Venus I saw this morning. Wasn't sure. Now I am. :) If it's in that direction and at that time of day and it's bright and it doesn't move, it's probably Venus. If it does move, it's probably an airplane landing light. :) > Julia > >usually not looking east before sunrise, but today was an exception I presume that unlike mine your bathroom window does not look east (or else you have trees or buildings or something in the way of seeing the sky from there) . . . -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
